ORGANIZATION
The Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) is part of the Medical Faculty at the Universität Leipzig.
It consists of five interconnected research groups and the project management group:
Therapy Imaging and Model Management System (TIMMS)
Group Leader: Dr. Oliver Burgert
- Stefan Bohn (S-PACS)
- Stefan Dänzer
- Christian Dressler (Surgical DICOM Solutions)
- Leonid Evfimevskiy (Surgical DICOM Solutions)
- Dayana Goldstein (Surgical DICOM Solutions)
- Thilo Noack (SIP)
- Thomas Treichel (Surgical DICOM Solutions)
- Adrian Vazquez (ASTMA)
- Arun Voruganti (S-PACS)
- Juliane Dinse (scientific assistant, technical)
- Sven Fischer (student assistant, technical)
- Stephan Felke (student assistant, technical)
- Stefan Franke (student assistant, technical)
- Doreen Götze (student assistant, technical)
- Michael Leßnau (student assistant, technical)
- Juliane Neumann (student assistant, technical)
- Enrico Nußbaum (student assistant, technical)
- Max Rockstroh (student assistant, technical)
- Christian Wilhelm (student assistant, technical)
Patient Model
Group Leader: Dr. Rafael Mayoral
- Claire Chalopin (Medical Image Processing)
- Elmar Dittrich (NC-Mastoid)
- Emil Ladar
- Daniel Streitbürger
- Patrick Kongtso (student assistant, technical)
- Robin Ledig (student assistant, technical)
- Kais Tahar (student assistant, technical)
Workflow and Knowledge Management
Group Leader: Dr. Thomas Neumuth
- Michael Czygan
- Philipp Liebmann (Surgical DICOM Solutions)
- Christian Meißner
- Raj Mudunuri (Surgical Ontologies)
- Dorothee Amann (student assistant, clinical)
- Marcello Ceschia (student assistant, technical)
- Christian Eisenhut (student assistant, technical)
- Katharina Fehre (student assistant, clinical)
- Stephan Felke (student assistant, technical)
- Enrico Genauck (student assistant, technical)
- Bernadett Kaschek (scientific assistant, clinical)
- Jens Meier (student assistant, technical)
- Robert Menger (student assistant, technical)
- Maik Müller (student assistant, technical)
- Stephan Neupert (student assistant, clinical)
- Max Rockstroh (student assistant, technical)
- Sandra Schmutzler (student assistant, clinical)
- Stefan Schneider (student assistant, technical)
- Sandra Schumann (scientific assistant, technical)
- Michael Thiele (student assistant, technical)
- Christian Wilhelm (student assistant, technical)
Assessment of Surgical Automation Systems (ASSESS)
Group Leader: Dr. Werner Korb
- Norman Geißler
- Anke Hoffmeier
- Stefan Müller
- Andreas Seifert
- Michael Stephan
- Christine Ulrich
- Nadine Appelt (scientific assistant, business administration)
- Inka El Khaoua (student assistant, psychology)
- Ricardo Ewald (scientific assistant, technical)
- Jochen Handwerk (student assistant, industrial design)
- Anke Lubrich (student assistant, psychology)
- Andrej Machno (scientific assistant, computer science)
- Liane Schönwald (student assistant, psychology)
- Lars Voitel (scientific assistant, technical)
Visual Computing
Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Dirk Bartz
- Silvia Born (Image Processing, Visualization)
- Albert Pritzkau (Visual Analytics)
- Daniela Wellein (Perception, Medical Mixed Reality)
- Stefan Feder (Cardiac Ventricle Reconstruction, with Heart Center Leipzig)
- Jan Friedrich (student assistant)
- Jennifer Meyer (student assistant)
- Peter Rhone (scientific assistant)
Other Third-Party Funded Projects
- Mohamed Karar (Transapical Aortic Valve Replacement)
Project Management
Group Leader: Karin Weiße
Board
ICCAS is headed by a board which reflects the medical and technical disciplines constituting the core of ICCAS:
Boardmitglieder
Director of the Board: Prof. Dr. med. J. Meixensberger (Neurosurgery)
- Dr. C. Trantakis (Neurosurgery)
- Prof. A. Dietz (ENT-surgery)
- Dr. G. Strauß (ENT-surgery & ICCAS secretary)
- Prof. F. Mohr (Cardiac surgery)
- Prof. H. Lemke (medical informatics & senior scientific advisor )
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Bartz (Visual Computing)
- Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Walther (Cardiac surgery)
All scientific work within ICCAS is structured into projects headed by a project leader. Each project is assigned to one of the research groups.
An advisory board consisting of representatives of industry and science evaluates ICCAS periodically.

